To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

oi the watchman motion per year two dollars payable in v . but if not paid in advance two dollars 1 >â– %:#*. will ne charged errs inserted at 1 for the firr.t.and 25cts ' t^t gab3eque.nl insertion court ordeis charged â– ''*'.' c hi^.i-r thiiii these rates a liberal deduc se who advertise by the year * he editors must be postpaid iff agricultural off to sustain and improve quality of the soil has become an important inquiry a ; rj 'â€žÂ£ many of our farmers how they , j fertilize such of their lands as are jing large burthens of produce which ! taken off the premises for sale ? where kite from a large city or places for inlying manures this is a most impor 5tquery and one which they are high <, interested in having answered correct it is absolutely certain that farmers , jna0 t annually rob their farms oi large crops oi grain grass and roots without jlber supplying manure to the soil or los ijj rapidly in its fertility we shall brief ljmjicate some of the most obvious rc jfflces for sustaining and improving the iveness of the soil ;,. tlie first place not an ounce of ani manure should be suffered lobe was â– pj either liquid or solid when not propped on the feeding grounds but around lie stables and yards it should be care f fl ysaved and treasured up where it can pt waste till used this should be care iuliv and judiciously compounded with atiorpeat or vegetable matter so as to retain all its gasses and not be permitted r.i.i away ; and as soon as the proper joe offers it should be carried on to the is and at once incorporated with the : another resource for many of our eas tern farmers is the immense stores of peat ind much that an within their reach and which tends greatly to benefiting a light andy or loamy soil all the animal natter ashes leached and unleached i feotlld be carefully collected and applied i tfiheir land and any other fertilizing sub j dance which is to be found around the iremises or can be collected at not two reat an expense in this neighborhood but in many cases where the stock of fattle is not large and the produce sold torn the land is considerable some more icunite and certain means for sustaining alarm must be resorted to with the imost intelligent and systematic agricultu list a proper rotation is adopted which as heen found by experience to be adap ted to the locality and products â€” by this * meant a regular succession of corps on he same field through a series of years which at their expiration are again repea ted they are so arranged that two grain crops never follow each other but are separated by root crops grasses c this system prevents the necessity of the soil yielding similar ingredients â€” trough two or more successive seasons a'liich it will seldom do to any extent suf licient to produce a good second crop 1 me is required for it to decompose such of the ingredients which it contains as are necessary to form what are called the inorganic portions to be taken up and ap propriated by the plant it also enables he cultivator to apply his green and pu resent manures to such crops as are most properly adapted to receive them such iscorn and roots and nearly all the ob jects of cultivation excepting the smaller gtairis hie grand object of rotation however is to give the land rest as it is termed when allowed to remain in grass or mea jow or refreshment when the clover or er fertilizing crops are ploughed into las soil for manure such crops carry 1 bac'iito the soil so much of its materials :.. -\ have taken from it and in addi mportant elements which they have ibstracted from the atmosphere and they ve found by long practice to be of great fin in sustaining lhe fertility of the before passing on to a considera onnected with ihis particular point ithe subject ofthe highest importance u'e would say that a large share of the benefit to the land derivable from this practice may be secured by feeding the over lo such animals as will consume it 1 the ground we say a part only for the food which goes to supply the res ttion of the animal which is no incon frable share 1 , passing off again into the is lost another part is stowed up in fmented size ot lhe animal for it is cer i ' that whale ver weight it acquires j>ile feeding it is at the expense of the if milch cows are pastured the ab faction of valuable ingredients is still peater as it has been found that pastures ea off for a long time by cows have been jobwaot large amounts of phosphate of ne and other important matter if bor ** are thus fed and taken on the roads elsewhere to work it is evident that j^e quantities of this manure will thus elost to the fields supplying the food fcaeep are undoubtedly best adapted to h-3e ohject we have in view they re â– l a 'Â« stationary in the same fields where " e . v ieed and return to them all ihey ve taken save what escapes by respi tion evaporation or is stored up by the t*ss they also drop their manure to highest and driest parts of the â– id where it is more beneficial than where : and we would most earnest commend the introduction of sheep ndry on a more or less extended , a - to any farmer who practices the tn of turning in crops for manure necessity of carrying them through â– winter will still further provide the nals for fertilization by accumula jlk st t Â° f lnarine from this source : c wlt l hout the shep p or a full equiv j â€¢, td ln otht - r st ock would not thus be se &? r ur t0 ! he s^ject of turning ! s^8Â«vil 8 f v j entata ngle glance l , does not accomplish all . pessary in sustaining the mea j the carolina watchman bruner & james ) Â« editors 6c proprietors \ " k " r a â„¢ all - y0cr â€ž s new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison ( number 48 of volume iv salisbury n c thursday march 30 1848 sure ol fertility of land subject to the crop ping in a rotation consisting of clover and wheat simply we find that the wheat abstracts large amounts of phosphate of lime potash gypsum salt c which if nothing he added to the soil except the clover crop will in a few years reduce an ordinary soil to so low a point that it can not yield profitable returns the land may continue to yield for a long time ; but it is evident that it is losing properties at every successive harvest which must be supplied to it or it will be eventually ex hausted the true and only remedy for this is \ to ascertain by analysis either of your own or the well established researches of others precisely what of the inorganic materials such as are inherent in the soil and not found to any appreciable extent in the atmosphere are taken from the land by cropping or feeding and not return ed to it by straw manure or offal of any kind and return those materials to the land in such available shape as will ena ble future crops to supply themselves with j all they requite this is indispensable to f a succession of good crops and prolongs fertility and no farmer is wise who neg â– lects this practice for a single year how ever seemingly well his adopted system may answer which does not embrace the ; foregoing practice the runaway match ; or how the schoolmaster married a for tune by maj jos jones of pineville it's about ten years ago sense tho inci \ dent what i'm gwine to tell tuck place , it caused a great sensation in pineville at ; the time and had the effect to make fel i lers monstrous careful how they runaway \ with other people's daughters without j their consent ever sense mr ebenezer doolittle was the bomi i nablest man after rich galls that ever was i he hadn't been keepin school in pineville i more'n six months before he had found | out every gall in the settlement whose fa . ther had twenty niggers and had courted j all of em within a day's ride he was rather old to be poplar with the galls and somehow they did'nt like his ways and the way they did bluff him off was enough to discourage anybody but a yankee schoolmaster what wanted to git married ; and hadn't many years of grace left but ! it didn't seem to make no sort of differ i ence to him he undertook em by the | job he was bound to have a rich wife j out of some of em and if he failed in j one case it only made him more perse verin in the next his motto was â€” ne j ver say die !" betty darling as they used to call her j â€” old mr darling's daughter what used j to live out on the runs â€” was about the torn downest mischief of a gall in all georgia betty was rich and handsome ; and smart and had more admirers than she could shake a stick at but she was j sich a ormentin little coquet that the boys was all afraid to court her in down right earnest when mr doolittle found her out he went rite at her like a house-a-fire she was jest the gall for him and he was termined to have her at the risk of his life well he laid siege to old mr darling's house day and night and when he couldn't leave his school to go and see her he rit letters to her that was enuff'to throw any other gall but betty darling into a fit of the highstericks to read em jest as eve rybody expected after encouragin hi*nri jest enuff to make the feller believe he had the thing ded she kicked him flat but shaw ! he was perfectly used to that and he was too much of a filosofer to be dis couraged by sich a rebuff when the ame was worth pursuin he didn't lose a mink's time but jest brushed up and went rite at her agin â€” everybody was perfectly surprised to see him gwine back to old mr darling's af ter the way he had been treated by betty but they was a good deal more surprised and the boys was terribly alarmed in a bout a month at the headway he seemed to be makin in his suit all at once miss betty's conduct seemed to change towards him and though her father and mother was terribly opposed to the match any body could see that she was beginnin to like the schoolmaster very well things went on in this way for a while till bimeby old mr darling begun to git so uneasy about it that he told mr doo little one day that he musn't come to his house no more ; and that if heketchthim sendin any more letters and kiss verses to his daughter by his nigger galls he'd make one of his boys give him a alfired cowhidin 'â– but mr doolittle didn't care for that neither he could see miss betfy when she come a shoppin in the stores in town and ther was more'n one way to git a let ter to her what did he care for old [ darling ? his daughter was hed and hart in love with him too if she was opposed by her parents and as for the property he was certain to git that when once he married the gall on saturday when ther was no school mr doolittle went to old squire rogers and told him he must be reddy to marry a couple that night at exactly ten o'clock ' ' mum ses he ' you musn't say a word ' to nobody squire the license is all rea i dy and the party wants to be very pri vate mr doolittle had arranged the whole bisness in first rate order miss betty was to meet him at the eend of her fath er's lane disguised in a ridin dress bor rowed for the occasion when he was to take her in a close one horse barouche and * fly wilh her on the wings of love as he sed he would to the squire's office whar they was to be united in the bands of wedlock before anybody in the village know'd anything about it he had made arrangemetits at the hotel for a room which he seed fixed up himself for the auspicious occasion and he had writ a let ter to a friend of his down in augusty to be thar the next week to take charge of his school as he thought it moughtbe ne cessary for him to keep out of the way of old darling for a few weeks till the old feller couid have time to come to all day mr doolittle was buslin about as if he wasn't certain which eend he stood on while the sunshine of his heart beamed from his taller colored face in a \ way to let every body know something ! extraordinary was gwyne to happen jest after dark he mought been seen j drivin out by himself in a barouche to i wards old mr darling's everybody spected something and all hands was on the look out it was plain to see squire rogers importance was swelled up con siderable with something but nobody couldn't git a word out of him mr doolittle didn't spare the lash after he got out of sight of town and with strainin eyes and palpitatin hart he soon reached the place appinted to meet the object of his consumin affections was she thar ? no ! yes ! is it ?â€” yes thar she is !â€” the dear creater the skirt of her nankeen ridin dress what sets close to her angelic form flutterin in the breeze she stands timidly crouchin in the corner of the fence holdin her vale close over the lovely face tremblin in ev ery jint for iear she mought be discovered and tore away from the arms of her de ( voted ehenezer ! 4 dearest angel !' ses he in a low voice oh ebenezer !' and she kind o fell in his arms * compose yourself my love * oh if father should ' * don't fear dearest creature my arm ! shall protect you agin the world and then he was jest gwine to pull j away her vale to kiss her 1 oh !' ses she â€¢ didn't i hear somebody j comin v * eh v ses he lookin round â– let's git | in my dear and with that he helped her into the | barouche and contented himself with im ! printin a burnin kiss that almost singed the kid glove on her dear little hand as he closed the door then jumpin on the front i seat he drove as fast as he could to town j encouragin her all the way and swarin to her how he would love her and make ! her happy and tellin her how her father | and mother would forgive her and think jest as much of her as ever pore gall ! she was so terribly agitated that she couldn't do nothin but sob and cry which made mr doolittle love her more and sware the harder when they got to the squire's office and the boys that was on the watch seed him help her out ofthe barouche evrybo dy know'd her at once in spite of her dis guise and sich another excitement was never seed in pineville sum of lhe fel lers was half out of their senses and it was necessary to hurry the ceremony over as quick as possible for fear of bein inter rupted by the row that was evidently bruin be quick squire ses doolittle hand in out the license and shakin like he had a ager ' for miss darling is very much agitated the squire hardly waited to wipe his spectacles and didn't take time to enjoy himself in readin the ceremony slow and puttin the demi-semi quivers in his voice like he always did the noise wasgetin louder and louder out of doors and sum body was knockin to get in â€¢ oh !' ses betty leanin on mr doolit tle's arm for support go on ses doolittle pressin her to his side his eyes on the squire and his face as white as a sheet open the door rogers ses a hoarse voice outside but the squire didn't hear nothin til he \ pronounced the last words of the ceremo j ny and ebenezer doolittle and elizabeth darling was pronounced man and wife j jest then the door opened in rushed old mr darling and bill and sam dar ling followed by a whole heap of fellers the bride screamed and fell into the arms of the triumphant doolittle ' take hold of her !' ses old darling : flourishin his cane over his hed ' take hold of the huzzy !' stand off ses doolittle throwin him self in a real stage attitude and supportin , his faitin bride on one arm stand off j old man ! she is my lawful wife and i claim the protection ofthe law 4 knock him down ! â€” take hold of him !' ses half a dozen ; and bill darling grab bed the bridegroom by the neck while squire rogers jumped up on the table and hollered out : " i command the peace ! i command the peace in the name of the state of georgia !' she's my wife â€” my lawful wife shouted doolittle ' i call upon the law !' jest then the bride got over her faintin fit and raised her droopin hed â€” the vale fell off and â€” oh cruel fate ! mr ebene zer doolittle stood petrified with horror holding in his arms not miss betty but miss betty's waitin-maid one ofthe black est niggers in georgia who at that inler estin crisis rolled her eyes upon him like two peeled onions and throwin her arms around his neck exclaimed â€” â– dis is my dear husband what miss betty gin me her own self sich a shout as did foller ! goto the devil you black ' ses doolittle tryin to pull away from her stick to him silla ses the fellers he's yours according to law old squire rogers looked like he'd mar ried his last couple pore old man and hadn't a word to say for himself the boys and the young darlings like to iaugh ; ed themselves to deth while old darling who was mad as a hornit was gwine to have doolittle arrested for nigger stealin i right off pore doolittle ! he made out at last ! i to git lose from his wife and to find the ; back door he haint never been heard | of in pineville from that dav to this l mrs john quincy adams mrs adams was born in england on the 1 lth of february 1775 she was the daughter of joshua johnson a maryland gentleman who went from america to london where he became eminent as a merchant during the war he left eng land for france where he acted as the commercial agent of this country and re turned upon the ratification of the treaty of peace mr adams found his future wife in london when acting under a commission conferred upon him by gener al washington in 1794 for exchanging the ratifications made under the treaty of november of that year mrs a was mar ried at all hollows church london on the 26th june and followed her husband to prussia where mr a was presented as the first american minister from the united states mrs adams conferred honor upon the country at a time when the united states was just recognised as an equal among the nations of the earth her next theatre of service was in wash ington and after this again the court of st petersburg and this from 1809 to 1814 the most exciting and perhaps the most revolutionary period in the history of eu rope and embracing a part of that inter esting period of our own history when the country was at war with england mr adams resided longer at st petersburg than any of our american ministers ex cepting mr middleton and his lady was left there for a brief period while her hus band was called to another field of ser i vice mrs a came alone from st pe j tersburg to paris after the treaty of peace had been signed by mr a at ghent â€” she was at paris during the most remark able period of napoleon's supremacy and passed the world wide " hundred days at i the french metropolis in the midst of the ! whirl of excitement incidental to the i struggle between the bourbons and the ! revolutionists after a short residence ! in france followed by a longer one with ! her parents in the neighborhood of lon ! don mrs adams came to washington in ! 1817 where her husband had been called , as the principal member of mr monroe's cabinet eijrht as secretary of state i four in the white house and fifty-one : years the companion of her distinguished ; husband mrs adams has seen more of i court life and that in every variety from the boastful ostentation of royalty to the simplicity of our own republican habits , than perhaps any living woman â€” wash i i cor of the pittsburg gaz value of small things â€” at the coal pits of england broad flat ropes are used to draw up the coals these are called tows and a new tow has to be added eve ry few weeks to some of the large collie ries for many a year these old ropes were thrown aside and considered useless as they were black with grease tar and coal dust but lately ingenuity has con verted that dirty substance into beautiful tissue paper a ream ot which weighs on ly 2 pounds it is used in the english potteries for transferring patterns to the earthenware and is found superior to any other substance ever known for that pur pose and it is so tenacious that a sheet of it twisted will support a weight of one hundred pounds â€” scientific american pennsylvania whig convention â€” the whig convention for pennsylvania as sembled in harrisburg 15th inst mr john b johnson esq was unanimous ly elected president mr thomas m k m'keenan of worthington and john p saunderson of lebanon were chosen as senatorial electors the seed of the tea plant an enterpris in and public spirited citizen of our communi ty has just received from canton via x \ ork from an embassy to that country six varieties of the seed ofthe tea plant together with di rections for its culture the seed resembles i in some measure the small sized ground arti i choke a sample of one ofthe varieties may be , seen at this office â€” char courier mr clay and mrs polk â€” we find the following well told anecdote in the wes tern continent " it is doubtless well known to our rea ders that shortly after his departure from washington mr clay attended a dinner party with many other distinguished gen tlemen of both political parties at the president's house the party is said to have been a very pleasant affair the vi ands were choice the wine was old and sparkling good feeling abounded and wit and lively repartee gave zest to lhe occasion while mrs polk the winning and accomplished hostess added the fin ishing grace of her excellent house wifery in the superior management uf the least mr clay was of course honored with a seat near the president's lady where it became him to put into requisition those insinuating talents which he possesses in so eminent a degree and which are irre sistible even to his enemies mrs polk with her usual frank and affable manner was extremely courteous to her distin guished guest whose good opinion as of all who shared lhe hospitalities of the white house she did not fail to win " madam said mr clay in that bland manner peculiar to himself " i must say that in my travels wherever i have been \ in all companies and among all parties i ! have heard but one opinion of you all , agree in commending in the highest terms | your excellent administration of the do j mestic affairs of the white house but ! he continued directing her attention to ; her husband " as for that young gentle i man there i cannot say as much there â– is said he some little difference of . opinion in regard to the policy of his i course " indeed said mrs polk " i am glad â€¢ to hear that my administration is popular j and in return lor your compliment i will say that if the country should elect a whig next fall i know of no one whose elevation would please me more than that of henry clay " thank you thank you madam and 1 will assure you of one thing â€” | if you do have occasion to occupy the ! white house on the fourth of march j next it shall be surrendered to you in per j feet order from garret to cellar " i'm certain that " but the laugh that followed this plea ; sant repartee which lost nothing from the manner nor the occasion of it did not per mit the guests at the lower end of the ta ble to hear the rest of mr clay's reply whether he was certain that he should | be the tenant of the president's mansion : or whether he only said he was certain | that whoever did occupy it would find it 1 in good condition like the result of the | coming contest for the presidency remains a mystery agreeable to previous call a numerous meeting in state convention of members ofthe whig party was held at new or . leans on tuesday evening last delegates ' were appointed to attend the national whig convention to assemble at phila delphia in june next to nominate candi dates for president and vice president resolutions were adopted pledging the meeting to adhere to and support the no minees of the convention among the named of those who addressed the meet ing we see that of randal hunt esq formerly of this city who remarked that *' he believed that the whig party could elect whatever candidate they nominated but that gen taylor would receive the largest vote with that view he should i advocate his selection as the whig candi i date as a first choice and mr clay as a second although he should prefer mr clay's electon lion s s prentiss also addressed the convention on wednesday evening the democracy from various portions from louisana as sembled at the representative hall for the purpose of appointing delegates to the baltimore national convention and se lecting presidential electors resolutions were adopted expressive of the confidence of the convention in such nomination as should be made by the na tional convention and declaratory of what was considered domocratic principles several gentlemen addressed the con vention after the main business of the meeting was completed a resolutions was offered and adopted declaring the wil mot proviso an attack upon the constitu tional rights of the slaveholding states and its discussion in congress as fraught with danger to our federal union from the n o picayune march 15 shooting â€” the st louis union men tions that on the evening ofthe oth inst an alteration occurred between mr smith and mr clarkson at the room of the lat ter in st louis the parties drew their pistols and smith fired â€” the ball entered the forehead of clarkson passed round and out at the temple without fracturing the skull or doing any very serious inju ry mr smith gave himself up â€” was ta ken before a justice ofthe peace and ac quitted omthe ground of his having act ed in self-defence the arkansas intelligencer gives the names of several creeks who passed through van buren on the 1st inst on their way to washington city whither they had been sent as a delegation by the council of their nation in company with the creek delegation was tustenecochec a seminole who is going on as a delegate from that tribe tustenecochee is a mem ber of black dirk's tribe known as the friendly indians who emigrated at the be ginning of the seminole war without be ing engaged in the hostilities with our troops the same paper informs us that thir teen chickasaw youths passed through that place on the 29th ult under the charge of mr charles eastman on their way to the choctaw academy in ken tucky they are represented as line in telligent well-behaved boys death of tico distinguished men â€” ex chief justice spencer of new york and hon ii g wheaton of roxbury mas sachusetts late l s minister to prussia have died full of years and lull of honors the latter died on saturday week and the former on monday last mr spencer was 85 years of age and had filled the office of state senator mem ber of congress and judge ofthe supreme court lie was president of the whig convention that nominated clay and fre linghuyscn at baltimore in 1844 mr wheaton was says the n y globe a man of more active habits devo ted to literary pursuits and the study of languages he was our representative abroad at various courts in europe where he displayed untiring zeal in the service of his country ami did much to extend the reputation of the american people by the force of bis own example al though he look no part in politics he ne ver concealed his views which were those of the jeffersonian school his age was about gs both were great and good men beloved and admired by their friends and esteemed by their fellow-citizens rail road depots at columbia a meet ing ofthe citizens of columbia was held on saturday evening last in the town hall for the purpose of discussing and de ciding the queston of the location of the depots of the charlotte and greenville rail roads dr edward sill the inten dant presided w f de saussure esq having been called on addressed the meeting and con cluded by offering resolutions providing that a commiitee of three citizens from each ward be appointed by the intendant to whom it shall be referred to fix definite ly the location ofthe depots of the char lotte and greenville rail roads at col umbia that the intendant be requested to invite a meeting of the presidents and engineers of the charlotte and greenville rail road companies in the council chamber at columbia on that day fort night to consult with the committee of citizens in relation to the location of the said depots and that the committee ap pointed by the town is not authorised to consent that the depots shall be the same wiÂ»h the present depot ofthe charleston rail road the resolutions were discussed at largo by several gentlemen among them messrs caldwell goodwyn lyles gibbes mar tin and others the resolutions wero all unanimously adopted â€” charleston courier gen t a v lor in alab a m a . at a meeting ofthe whig members of the general assembly of the state of al abama held at montgomery on the eve ning of the 2!)th ol february is is col e young of marengo being in the chair and peter hamilton esq of mobile sec retary the following resolutions were ad opted : resolved that we approve the nomi nation of general zachary taylor made by the mass meeting held in the capitol on the srh january last and that we hear tily recommend said nomination to the people of this slate resolved that we recommend to the whig parly of this state that they do not appoint delegates to the national con vention to be held in philadelphia in june next ; and that they give their support to gen taylor as the candidate of the peo ple for the presidency a whig vict ry in detroit from the d<-,r i dai a i ol 'â€¢! ..- . 7 the campaign of is is in michigan was commenced yesterday in this city ; and the result ofthe first battle will cheer the hearts of the whigs of the west â€” â– probably a more warmly-contested fight than that of yesterday has never taken place in detroit the issue was cass or no cass â€” " whig principles or loco foco rule the victory over locofoco ism was decisive mr buhl the anti-cass whig candi date for mayor received a majority in six out of the seven wards of the city and has an aggregate majority of 104 votes over mr goodwin his cass-locofoco op ponent ! last fall the locofoco majority in this city was 238 the result of yesterday's contest shows a gain in favor of repub lican whig principles of 342 votes in the short space of four months knitting stockings by steam â€” a nnmber of influential inhabitant ol ipswich england have introduced into lhat town an important hranch of industry likely to give employment to a large number of person machines are now at work knitting stockings by steam the 1 work is done with beautiful accuracy one i young person can attend to three machines and each machine will knit one stocking in three hours

oi the watchman motion per year two dollars payable in v . but if not paid in advance two dollars 1 >â– %:#*. will ne charged errs inserted at 1 for the firr.t.and 25cts ' t^t gab3eque.nl insertion court ordeis charged â– ''*'.' c hi^.i-r thiiii these rates a liberal deduc se who advertise by the year * he editors must be postpaid iff agricultural off to sustain and improve quality of the soil has become an important inquiry a ; rj 'â€žÂ£ many of our farmers how they , j fertilize such of their lands as are jing large burthens of produce which ! taken off the premises for sale ? where kite from a large city or places for inlying manures this is a most impor 5tquery and one which they are high ile feeding it is at the expense of the if milch cows are pastured the ab faction of valuable ingredients is still peater as it has been found that pastures ea off for a long time by cows have been jobwaot large amounts of phosphate of ne and other important matter if bor ** are thus fed and taken on the roads elsewhere to work it is evident that j^e quantities of this manure will thus elost to the fields supplying the food fcaeep are undoubtedly best adapted to h-3e ohject we have in view they re â– l a 'Â« stationary in the same fields where " e . v ieed and return to them all ihey ve taken save what escapes by respi tion evaporation or is stored up by the t*ss they also drop their manure to highest and driest parts of the â– id where it is more beneficial than where : and we would most earnest commend the introduction of sheep ndry on a more or less extended , a - to any farmer who practices the tn of turning in crops for manure necessity of carrying them through â– winter will still further provide the nals for fertilization by accumula jlk st t Â° f lnarine from this source : c wlt l hout the shep p or a full equiv j â€¢, td ln otht - r st ock would not thus be se &? r ur t0 ! he s^ject of turning ! s^8Â«vil 8 f v j entata ngle glance l , does not accomplish all . pessary in sustaining the mea j the carolina watchman bruner & james ) Â« editors 6c proprietors \ " k " r a â„¢ all - y0cr â€ž s new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison ( number 48 of volume iv salisbury n c thursday march 30 1848 sure ol fertility of land subject to the crop ping in a rotation consisting of clover and wheat simply we find that the wheat abstracts large amounts of phosphate of lime potash gypsum salt c which if nothing he added to the soil except the clover crop will in a few years reduce an ordinary soil to so low a point that it can not yield profitable returns the land may continue to yield for a long time ; but it is evident that it is losing properties at every successive harvest which must be supplied to it or it will be eventually ex hausted the true and only remedy for this is \ to ascertain by analysis either of your own or the well established researches of others precisely what of the inorganic materials such as are inherent in the soil and not found to any appreciable extent in the atmosphere are taken from the land by cropping or feeding and not return ed to it by straw manure or offal of any kind and return those materials to the land in such available shape as will ena ble future crops to supply themselves with j all they requite this is indispensable to f a succession of good crops and prolongs fertility and no farmer is wise who neg â– lects this practice for a single year how ever seemingly well his adopted system may answer which does not embrace the ; foregoing practice the runaway match ; or how the schoolmaster married a for tune by maj jos jones of pineville it's about ten years ago sense tho inci \ dent what i'm gwine to tell tuck place , it caused a great sensation in pineville at ; the time and had the effect to make fel i lers monstrous careful how they runaway \ with other people's daughters without j their consent ever sense mr ebenezer doolittle was the bomi i nablest man after rich galls that ever was i he hadn't been keepin school in pineville i more'n six months before he had found | out every gall in the settlement whose fa . ther had twenty niggers and had courted j all of em within a day's ride he was rather old to be poplar with the galls and somehow they did'nt like his ways and the way they did bluff him off was enough to discourage anybody but a yankee schoolmaster what wanted to git married ; and hadn't many years of grace left but ! it didn't seem to make no sort of differ i ence to him he undertook em by the | job he was bound to have a rich wife j out of some of em and if he failed in j one case it only made him more perse verin in the next his motto was â€” ne j ver say die !" betty darling as they used to call her j â€” old mr darling's daughter what used j to live out on the runs â€” was about the torn downest mischief of a gall in all georgia betty was rich and handsome ; and smart and had more admirers than she could shake a stick at but she was j sich a ormentin little coquet that the boys was all afraid to court her in down right earnest when mr doolittle found her out he went rite at her like a house-a-fire she was jest the gall for him and he was termined to have her at the risk of his life well he laid siege to old mr darling's house day and night and when he couldn't leave his school to go and see her he rit letters to her that was enuff'to throw any other gall but betty darling into a fit of the highstericks to read em jest as eve rybody expected after encouragin hi*nri jest enuff to make the feller believe he had the thing ded she kicked him flat but shaw ! he was perfectly used to that and he was too much of a filosofer to be dis couraged by sich a rebuff when the ame was worth pursuin he didn't lose a mink's time but jest brushed up and went rite at her agin â€” everybody was perfectly surprised to see him gwine back to old mr darling's af ter the way he had been treated by betty but they was a good deal more surprised and the boys was terribly alarmed in a bout a month at the headway he seemed to be makin in his suit all at once miss betty's conduct seemed to change towards him and though her father and mother was terribly opposed to the match any body could see that she was beginnin to like the schoolmaster very well things went on in this way for a while till bimeby old mr darling begun to git so uneasy about it that he told mr doo little one day that he musn't come to his house no more ; and that if heketchthim sendin any more letters and kiss verses to his daughter by his nigger galls he'd make one of his boys give him a alfired cowhidin 'â– but mr doolittle didn't care for that neither he could see miss betfy when she come a shoppin in the stores in town and ther was more'n one way to git a let ter to her what did he care for old [ darling ? his daughter was hed and hart in love with him too if she was opposed by her parents and as for the property he was certain to git that when once he married the gall on saturday when ther was no school mr doolittle went to old squire rogers and told him he must be reddy to marry a couple that night at exactly ten o'clock ' ' mum ses he ' you musn't say a word ' to nobody squire the license is all rea i dy and the party wants to be very pri vate mr doolittle had arranged the whole bisness in first rate order miss betty was to meet him at the eend of her fath er's lane disguised in a ridin dress bor rowed for the occasion when he was to take her in a close one horse barouche and * fly wilh her on the wings of love as he sed he would to the squire's office whar they was to be united in the bands of wedlock before anybody in the village know'd anything about it he had made arrangemetits at the hotel for a room which he seed fixed up himself for the auspicious occasion and he had writ a let ter to a friend of his down in augusty to be thar the next week to take charge of his school as he thought it moughtbe ne cessary for him to keep out of the way of old darling for a few weeks till the old feller couid have time to come to all day mr doolittle was buslin about as if he wasn't certain which eend he stood on while the sunshine of his heart beamed from his taller colored face in a \ way to let every body know something ! extraordinary was gwyne to happen jest after dark he mought been seen j drivin out by himself in a barouche to i wards old mr darling's everybody spected something and all hands was on the look out it was plain to see squire rogers importance was swelled up con siderable with something but nobody couldn't git a word out of him mr doolittle didn't spare the lash after he got out of sight of town and with strainin eyes and palpitatin hart he soon reached the place appinted to meet the object of his consumin affections was she thar ? no ! yes ! is it ?â€” yes thar she is !â€” the dear creater the skirt of her nankeen ridin dress what sets close to her angelic form flutterin in the breeze she stands timidly crouchin in the corner of the fence holdin her vale close over the lovely face tremblin in ev ery jint for iear she mought be discovered and tore away from the arms of her de ( voted ehenezer ! 4 dearest angel !' ses he in a low voice oh ebenezer !' and she kind o fell in his arms * compose yourself my love * oh if father should ' * don't fear dearest creature my arm ! shall protect you agin the world and then he was jest gwine to pull j away her vale to kiss her 1 oh !' ses she â€¢ didn't i hear somebody j comin v * eh v ses he lookin round â– let's git | in my dear and with that he helped her into the | barouche and contented himself with im ! printin a burnin kiss that almost singed the kid glove on her dear little hand as he closed the door then jumpin on the front i seat he drove as fast as he could to town j encouragin her all the way and swarin to her how he would love her and make ! her happy and tellin her how her father | and mother would forgive her and think jest as much of her as ever pore gall ! she was so terribly agitated that she couldn't do nothin but sob and cry which made mr doolittle love her more and sware the harder when they got to the squire's office and the boys that was on the watch seed him help her out ofthe barouche evrybo dy know'd her at once in spite of her dis guise and sich another excitement was never seed in pineville sum of lhe fel lers was half out of their senses and it was necessary to hurry the ceremony over as quick as possible for fear of bein inter rupted by the row that was evidently bruin be quick squire ses doolittle hand in out the license and shakin like he had a ager ' for miss darling is very much agitated the squire hardly waited to wipe his spectacles and didn't take time to enjoy himself in readin the ceremony slow and puttin the demi-semi quivers in his voice like he always did the noise wasgetin louder and louder out of doors and sum body was knockin to get in â€¢ oh !' ses betty leanin on mr doolit tle's arm for support go on ses doolittle pressin her to his side his eyes on the squire and his face as white as a sheet open the door rogers ses a hoarse voice outside but the squire didn't hear nothin til he \ pronounced the last words of the ceremo j ny and ebenezer doolittle and elizabeth darling was pronounced man and wife j jest then the door opened in rushed old mr darling and bill and sam dar ling followed by a whole heap of fellers the bride screamed and fell into the arms of the triumphant doolittle ' take hold of her !' ses old darling : flourishin his cane over his hed ' take hold of the huzzy !' stand off ses doolittle throwin him self in a real stage attitude and supportin , his faitin bride on one arm stand off j old man ! she is my lawful wife and i claim the protection ofthe law 4 knock him down ! â€” take hold of him !' ses half a dozen ; and bill darling grab bed the bridegroom by the neck while squire rogers jumped up on the table and hollered out : " i command the peace ! i command the peace in the name of the state of georgia !' she's my wife â€” my lawful wife shouted doolittle ' i call upon the law !' jest then the bride got over her faintin fit and raised her droopin hed â€” the vale fell off and â€” oh cruel fate ! mr ebene zer doolittle stood petrified with horror holding in his arms not miss betty but miss betty's waitin-maid one ofthe black est niggers in georgia who at that inler estin crisis rolled her eyes upon him like two peeled onions and throwin her arms around his neck exclaimed â€” â– dis is my dear husband what miss betty gin me her own self sich a shout as did foller ! goto the devil you black ' ses doolittle tryin to pull away from her stick to him silla ses the fellers he's yours according to law old squire rogers looked like he'd mar ried his last couple pore old man and hadn't a word to say for himself the boys and the young darlings like to iaugh ; ed themselves to deth while old darling who was mad as a hornit was gwine to have doolittle arrested for nigger stealin i right off pore doolittle ! he made out at last ! i to git lose from his wife and to find the ; back door he haint never been heard | of in pineville from that dav to this l mrs john quincy adams mrs adams was born in england on the 1 lth of february 1775 she was the daughter of joshua johnson a maryland gentleman who went from america to london where he became eminent as a merchant during the war he left eng land for france where he acted as the commercial agent of this country and re turned upon the ratification of the treaty of peace mr adams found his future wife in london when acting under a commission conferred upon him by gener al washington in 1794 for exchanging the ratifications made under the treaty of november of that year mrs a was mar ried at all hollows church london on the 26th june and followed her husband to prussia where mr a was presented as the first american minister from the united states mrs adams conferred honor upon the country at a time when the united states was just recognised as an equal among the nations of the earth her next theatre of service was in wash ington and after this again the court of st petersburg and this from 1809 to 1814 the most exciting and perhaps the most revolutionary period in the history of eu rope and embracing a part of that inter esting period of our own history when the country was at war with england mr adams resided longer at st petersburg than any of our american ministers ex cepting mr middleton and his lady was left there for a brief period while her hus band was called to another field of ser i vice mrs a came alone from st pe j tersburg to paris after the treaty of peace had been signed by mr a at ghent â€” she was at paris during the most remark able period of napoleon's supremacy and passed the world wide " hundred days at i the french metropolis in the midst of the ! whirl of excitement incidental to the i struggle between the bourbons and the ! revolutionists after a short residence ! in france followed by a longer one with ! her parents in the neighborhood of lon ! don mrs adams came to washington in ! 1817 where her husband had been called , as the principal member of mr monroe's cabinet eijrht as secretary of state i four in the white house and fifty-one : years the companion of her distinguished ; husband mrs adams has seen more of i court life and that in every variety from the boastful ostentation of royalty to the simplicity of our own republican habits , than perhaps any living woman â€” wash i i cor of the pittsburg gaz value of small things â€” at the coal pits of england broad flat ropes are used to draw up the coals these are called tows and a new tow has to be added eve ry few weeks to some of the large collie ries for many a year these old ropes were thrown aside and considered useless as they were black with grease tar and coal dust but lately ingenuity has con verted that dirty substance into beautiful tissue paper a ream ot which weighs on ly 2 pounds it is used in the english potteries for transferring patterns to the earthenware and is found superior to any other substance ever known for that pur pose and it is so tenacious that a sheet of it twisted will support a weight of one hundred pounds â€” scientific american pennsylvania whig convention â€” the whig convention for pennsylvania as sembled in harrisburg 15th inst mr john b johnson esq was unanimous ly elected president mr thomas m k m'keenan of worthington and john p saunderson of lebanon were chosen as senatorial electors the seed of the tea plant an enterpris in and public spirited citizen of our communi ty has just received from canton via x \ ork from an embassy to that country six varieties of the seed ofthe tea plant together with di rections for its culture the seed resembles i in some measure the small sized ground arti i choke a sample of one ofthe varieties may be , seen at this office â€” char courier mr clay and mrs polk â€” we find the following well told anecdote in the wes tern continent " it is doubtless well known to our rea ders that shortly after his departure from washington mr clay attended a dinner party with many other distinguished gen tlemen of both political parties at the president's house the party is said to have been a very pleasant affair the vi ands were choice the wine was old and sparkling good feeling abounded and wit and lively repartee gave zest to lhe occasion while mrs polk the winning and accomplished hostess added the fin ishing grace of her excellent house wifery in the superior management uf the least mr clay was of course honored with a seat near the president's lady where it became him to put into requisition those insinuating talents which he possesses in so eminent a degree and which are irre sistible even to his enemies mrs polk with her usual frank and affable manner was extremely courteous to her distin guished guest whose good opinion as of all who shared lhe hospitalities of the white house she did not fail to win " madam said mr clay in that bland manner peculiar to himself " i must say that in my travels wherever i have been \ in all companies and among all parties i ! have heard but one opinion of you all , agree in commending in the highest terms | your excellent administration of the do j mestic affairs of the white house but ! he continued directing her attention to ; her husband " as for that young gentle i man there i cannot say as much there â– is said he some little difference of . opinion in regard to the policy of his i course " indeed said mrs polk " i am glad â€¢ to hear that my administration is popular j and in return lor your compliment i will say that if the country should elect a whig next fall i know of no one whose elevation would please me more than that of henry clay " thank you thank you madam and 1 will assure you of one thing â€” | if you do have occasion to occupy the ! white house on the fourth of march j next it shall be surrendered to you in per j feet order from garret to cellar " i'm certain that " but the laugh that followed this plea ; sant repartee which lost nothing from the manner nor the occasion of it did not per mit the guests at the lower end of the ta ble to hear the rest of mr clay's reply whether he was certain that he should | be the tenant of the president's mansion : or whether he only said he was certain | that whoever did occupy it would find it 1 in good condition like the result of the | coming contest for the presidency remains a mystery agreeable to previous call a numerous meeting in state convention of members ofthe whig party was held at new or . leans on tuesday evening last delegates ' were appointed to attend the national whig convention to assemble at phila delphia in june next to nominate candi dates for president and vice president resolutions were adopted pledging the meeting to adhere to and support the no minees of the convention among the named of those who addressed the meet ing we see that of randal hunt esq formerly of this city who remarked that *' he believed that the whig party could elect whatever candidate they nominated but that gen taylor would receive the largest vote with that view he should i advocate his selection as the whig candi i date as a first choice and mr clay as a second although he should prefer mr clay's electon lion s s prentiss also addressed the convention on wednesday evening the democracy from various portions from louisana as sembled at the representative hall for the purpose of appointing delegates to the baltimore national convention and se lecting presidential electors resolutions were adopted expressive of the confidence of the convention in such nomination as should be made by the na tional convention and declaratory of what was considered domocratic principles several gentlemen addressed the con vention after the main business of the meeting was completed a resolutions was offered and adopted declaring the wil mot proviso an attack upon the constitu tional rights of the slaveholding states and its discussion in congress as fraught with danger to our federal union from the n o picayune march 15 shooting â€” the st louis union men tions that on the evening ofthe oth inst an alteration occurred between mr smith and mr clarkson at the room of the lat ter in st louis the parties drew their pistols and smith fired â€” the ball entered the forehead of clarkson passed round and out at the temple without fracturing the skull or doing any very serious inju ry mr smith gave himself up â€” was ta ken before a justice ofthe peace and ac quitted omthe ground of his having act ed in self-defence the arkansas intelligencer gives the names of several creeks who passed through van buren on the 1st inst on their way to washington city whither they had been sent as a delegation by the council of their nation in company with the creek delegation was tustenecochec a seminole who is going on as a delegate from that tribe tustenecochee is a mem ber of black dirk's tribe known as the friendly indians who emigrated at the be ginning of the seminole war without be ing engaged in the hostilities with our troops the same paper informs us that thir teen chickasaw youths passed through that place on the 29th ult under the charge of mr charles eastman on their way to the choctaw academy in ken tucky they are represented as line in telligent well-behaved boys death of tico distinguished men â€” ex chief justice spencer of new york and hon ii g wheaton of roxbury mas sachusetts late l s minister to prussia have died full of years and lull of honors the latter died on saturday week and the former on monday last mr spencer was 85 years of age and had filled the office of state senator mem ber of congress and judge ofthe supreme court lie was president of the whig convention that nominated clay and fre linghuyscn at baltimore in 1844 mr wheaton was says the n y globe a man of more active habits devo ted to literary pursuits and the study of languages he was our representative abroad at various courts in europe where he displayed untiring zeal in the service of his country ami did much to extend the reputation of the american people by the force of bis own example al though he look no part in politics he ne ver concealed his views which were those of the jeffersonian school his age was about gs both were great and good men beloved and admired by their friends and esteemed by their fellow-citizens rail road depots at columbia a meet ing ofthe citizens of columbia was held on saturday evening last in the town hall for the purpose of discussing and de ciding the queston of the location of the depots of the charlotte and greenville rail roads dr edward sill the inten dant presided w f de saussure esq having been called on addressed the meeting and con cluded by offering resolutions providing that a commiitee of three citizens from each ward be appointed by the intendant to whom it shall be referred to fix definite ly the location ofthe depots of the char lotte and greenville rail roads at col umbia that the intendant be requested to invite a meeting of the presidents and engineers of the charlotte and greenville rail road companies in the council chamber at columbia on that day fort night to consult with the committee of citizens in relation to the location of the said depots and that the committee ap pointed by the town is not authorised to consent that the depots shall be the same wiÂ»h the present depot ofthe charleston rail road the resolutions were discussed at largo by several gentlemen among them messrs caldwell goodwyn lyles gibbes mar tin and others the resolutions wero all unanimously adopted â€” charleston courier gen t a v lor in alab a m a . at a meeting ofthe whig members of the general assembly of the state of al abama held at montgomery on the eve ning of the 2!)th ol february is is col e young of marengo being in the chair and peter hamilton esq of mobile sec retary the following resolutions were ad opted : resolved that we approve the nomi nation of general zachary taylor made by the mass meeting held in the capitol on the srh january last and that we hear tily recommend said nomination to the people of this slate resolved that we recommend to the whig parly of this state that they do not appoint delegates to the national con vention to be held in philadelphia in june next ; and that they give their support to gen taylor as the candidate of the peo ple for the presidency a whig vict ry in detroit from the d